esa.int
ESA Council appoints two new directorshttps://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/ESA_Council_appoints_two_new_directorsThe European Space Agency Council has approved the appointment of two new directors: Christine Klein as Director of Controlling, Finance and Operational Procurement, and Jean-Luc Trullemans as Director of Strategy, Legal and External Affairs.Jun 17, 2026 9:44 AM
bing.com
Why Human-Written Posts Are Outperforming AI On LinkedInhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d1f2f2a174fce8c1a31df85c3d497&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fjodiecook%2F2026%2F06%2F17%2Fwhy-human-written-posts-are-outperforming-ai-on-linkedin%2F&c=17993631069654424089&mkt=en-usForbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jodie Cook covers AI and founder-led growth for business owners. LinkedIn is grappling with an overload of poor AI-generated ...Jun 17, 2026 5:00 AM
science.nasa.gov
Low Water at San Carlos Reservoirhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/low-water-at-san-carlos-reservoir/Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths.Jun 17, 2026 4:01 AM
bing.com
Amazon unveils new AI agents, trying to thread the needle between autonomy and human controlhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cc71df86a454db97ce4b4e6df5764&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekwire.com%2F2026%2Famazon-unveils-new-ai-agents-trying-to-thread-the-needle-between-autonomy-and-human-control%2F&c=1345387493237609051&mkt=en-usSwami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP of agentic AI, shows the Amazon Quick knowledge graph at the AWS Summit in New York. (Screenshot via live stream) Amazon Web Services is announcing a new set of AI agents ...Jun 17, 2026 2:51 AM
github.com
Show HN: Kevin – Claude talk less. Save Moneyhttps://github.com/hvardhan878/kevin"Why waste time say a lot word when few word do trick"Introducing Kevin, a claude plugin that talks like Kevin Malone from The Office but here is the fun part it actually saves you money. On some basic benchmarks it saved me 90% cost and it writes 93% less lines of code so you get more from your Claude Code limits.It is easy to use:/plugin marketplace add hvardhan878/kevin /plugin install kevin@kevinThe product is fully open source. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!Jun 16, 2026 11:43 PM
bing.com
Best SaaS Stocks to Buy in 2026 and How to Invest in Themhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb45922ac4c48b68aa1bbc3155d6b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Finvesting%2Fstock-market%2Fmarket-sectors%2Finformation-technology%2Fsaas-stocks%2F&c=9705004255577303815&mkt=en-usThe subscription business model now dominates much of the software industry and that has fueled the rise of software-as-a-service (SaaS) stocks. SaaS companies sell cloud-based software through ...Jun 16, 2026 11:02 PM
rubyai.beehiiv.com
Show HN: The Ruby AI Newsletterhttps://rubyai.beehiiv.com/p/ruby-ai-news-june-16th-2026Now on its 32nd edition, the Ruby AI Newsletter tracks what’s happening at the intersection of Ruby, Rails, and AI coding agents.YC recommends Rails for new startups, YC’s internal software like Bookface, Work at a Startup, and the software that runs the accelerator all run on Rails. Garry has been a vocal advocate for Ruby on Rails for agentic startups, calling it a "crazy unlock". And there is an incredible ecosystem forming around RubyLLM. Ruby and Rails gives agents conventions, structure, and fewer architectural choices to hallucinate.This edition is about that idea from the Ruby side: if models are increasingly interchangeable, restricted, expensive, or temporary, then the durable advantage is the system around them. Ruby and Rails may have a real edge there because they already reward clear conventions, small teams, mature libraries, and boring production software.Feedback welcome!Jun 16, 2026 10:34 PM
spaceflightnow.com
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 3 Block 2 BlueBird satellites for AST SpaceMobilehttps://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/16/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-3-block-2-bluebird-satellites-for-ast-spacemobile/The mission is third time SpaceX will launch satellites for AST SpaceMobile and its first of the Block 2 iteration of the BlueBird satellites. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 2:39 a.m. EDT (0639 UTC).Jun 16, 2026 9:45 PM
science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roastedhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-catches-exoplanet-getting-roasted/One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close by its Sun-like star. The research team is presenting their study and preliminary findings Tuesday at […]Jun 16, 2026 9:15 PM
spacenews.com
Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar landerhttps://spacenews.com/astrobotic-unveils-griffin-1-lunar-lander/Astrobotic showed off the lunar lander it plans to launch later this year that will be the vanguard of NASA’s new lunar base ambitions. The post Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar lander appeared first on SpaceNews.Jun 16, 2026 8:48 PM
pacwich.dev
Show HN: Pacwich – lightweight new monorepo tooling on top of Bun, NPM, or pnpmhttps://pacwich.dev/I developed a package simply called bun-workspaces that worked on top of Bun workspaces directly with zero required config, using plain package.json scripts for orchestration.I have re-developed this package into pacwich, which supports Bun, npm, or pnpm. I decided it would be a better direction for it to be decoupled from a particular package manager, so it needed a new name (but I wanted to keep my logo).I write about the development strategy and my engineering philosophy (including disclosing the manner in which AI assists and my approach to not vibing this) in the Security page and the launch blog post about the pivot, which I linked on the home page in the note about the bun-workspaces migration.More is to come, including a way to compose scripts into more complex workflows rather than running one named script in parallel/series.Jun 16, 2026 8:38 PM
bing.com
NBC's 2026 fall TV schedule includes 4 new shows, 9 cancellationshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cc9b9cb15404ea8ea3fb9b770a008&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fentertainment%2Ftv%2F2026%2F06%2F16%2Fnbc-2026-fall-tv-schedule-new-shows-cancellations%2F90582077007%2F&c=5589683419535463999&mkt=en-usNBC is shaking things up for its fall 2026 lineup. As the fall TV season nears, all eyes are on NBC's programming after the network recently announced some changes, including an ambitious slate of ...Jun 16, 2026 8:24 PM
github.com
Show HN: Write Your GitHub Actions in TypeScripthttps://github.com/dedalus-labs/hollywoodI spend a lot of my time writing GitHub Actions.Specifically, I need to script a ton of things. The current way of writing GitHub Actions with YAML is usually fine for small jobs. But for anything complicated, I often find myself in incredibly cursed "shell-in-YAML" situations.This was a major source of bugs for me. Since the "script" was written in YAML, there was actually not an easy way to modularize out the scripting logic to unit test them. Worse, there was zero type safety! For those who work with GitHub Actions frequently, you know how annoying this gets.My ideal GitHub Actions workflow would be to write actual programs, preferably in a language with strong types support.I also don't want an opinionated framework or a beefy runtime to "run" my GitHub Actions. I literally just want a way to write arbitrary programs that can call other services using native tooling from their respective ecosystems; for example, the AWS SDK to orchestrate my cloud.So this got me thinking about the Jun 16, 2026 7:36 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
Arianespace CEO Says Strike Will Not Affect Ariane 6 Launchhttps://europeanspaceflight.com/arianespace-ceo-says-strike-will-not-affect-ariane-6-launch/A strike that saw entrances to the Guiana Space Centre barricaded has ended, with Arianespace CEO David Cavaillolès saying the labour dispute has not affected tomorrow’s planned Ariane 6 launch from the site. Radio-Télé Péyi Guyane reported that the UTG, or Union of Guyanese Workers, had filed an indefinite general strike notice on 14 June, […] The post Arianespace CEO Says Strike Will Not Affect Ariane 6 Launch appeared first on European Spaceflight.Jun 16, 2026 6:24 PM
sigmashake.com
Show HN: A policy gate that runs before your AI coding agent's tool callshttps://sigmashake.comAs a Security Engineer with over 10+ years in industry, I kept running into the same problem with coding agents: Instructions are not guarantees.I put guidance in `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`, memory files, MCP descriptions, and tool documentation. I explicitly told the agent things like:- Use the code graph for architecture questions instead of grepping the repository. - Do not use deprecated APIs or Unsafe code. - Prefer specific tools for specific tasks.The agent would still ignore those instructions surprisingly often. It would grep the entire repo, use deprecated APIs, or choose a slower tool even when a better one was available.That made me realize prompts and rules solve different problems.A prompt is a probabilistic influence on model behavior. A rule is an enforcement mechanism.So I built SSG (SigmaShake Governance), which sits between the agent and its tools. Instead of asking the model to remember a policy, SSG evaluates every tool call before it executes.For example, this rule Jun 16, 2026 5:12 PM
github.com
Show HN: Kintsugi – a local-first safety net for AI agents and humanshttps://github.com/arrowassassin/kintsugiAI coding agents now run real shell commands on your machine — rm -rf, git push --force, DROP TABLE, dd, writes straight to disk. Almost always that's fine. The one time it isn't (a hallucinated path, a prompt-injected instruction, a confident wrong guess) there's no undo and you find out after.Kintsugi sits between the agent and your system. It catches the dangerous command before it runs, explains it in one plain sentence, makes destructive actions reversible with a snapshot, and writes every command every agent ran to an append-only, hash-chained log you own. Local-first: no cloud, no account, nothing leaves the machine.It's not only for AI. A passive bash/zsh recorder (no agent involved) puts every command a person runs on the same tamper-evident log and snapshots the destructive ones just-in-time — so `kintsugi undo` rolls back a DBA's fat-fingered rm -rf or clobbering overwrite the same way it rolls back an agent's. On a managed host you can seal the settings behind an admin passJun 16, 2026 5:00 PM
nasa.gov
NASA’s Quantum Lab Aboard Space Station Gets Chilly Upgradehttps://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/cold-atom-laboratory/nasas-quantum-lab-aboard-space-station-gets-chilly-upgrade/Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASA’s newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how scientists explore the fundamental workings of matter and develop new quantum technologies. By leveraging the unique environment of microgravity in space, the lab can accomplish cutting-edge science impossible to do anywhere else. Quantum […]Jun 16, 2026 4:50 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: Memento – Self-hosted agentic search and LLM wiki over your emailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557937Our email inboxes carry multiple decades of messages (100K-500K). This is a good proxy for all the important things that happened in your life, the projects you have done and the people that you have connected with. With the chronological view of messages in the inbox, these details remain hidden. What if we could turn this archive into a personal wiki that you can search and curate? That is Memento.For the information architecture of such a wiki, Memento takes an opinionated view of creating four high level dimensions - People (like a CRM view of your contacts), Projects (life events that are bounded by some start and end dates), Concepts (evergreen topics) and Newsletters.Inboxes group messages by sender address, so the same person shows up many times across work, personal, and alias addresses. In the People dimension, Memento resolves all of that into one canonical person using deterministic algorithms and brings the people who are related to that person through graph algorithms. WiJun 16, 2026 4:36 PM
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The ongoing debacle of hiring a fake coworkerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557755so, just had a guy ousted today in part due to my own judgment, as well as my boss'.this guy passed the interview rounds cleanly with decent answers -- I was in one, and I suspected something was "off" about him, but was willing to go ahead.after a couple months it becomes apparent this person is not really as inquisitive or critical as I'd like. they ask no questions, need no clarification, are silent in meetings.once it comes time to look at PRs, it's incredibly apparent it's LLM slop. not even GOOD slop -- lots of things outright broken, non-conforming frontend design, messy and redundant code. you can imagine.the person also cannot seemingly answer questions in sync. everything gets delayed, seemingly processed through the mouthpiece of AI. watching them live code is a mess. they seemingly have no idea what to do, until the AI instructs them. sometimes I even see them typing my questions in. (by the way, this was a SENIOR dev role.)so, needless to say, the person is gone now after Jun 16, 2026 4:24 PM
esa.int
Installing NEMUCO in BioLabhttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/06/Installing_NEMUCO_in_BioLabThis video was published on social media by ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot with the following caption:Jun 16, 2026 4:15 PM
